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ZrT SORT Or emu I etals thnn the lilv t 1 to turn up hr -1: "J.V. I ; ray you. opened bnil and tear it auart and bale its very soul." "And throw it away after." W ny keep it? lint let us iji .... to me nver. lne suu will and we can see the glorv from return ouu set i must go iu. Excuse me." S ar il ri -hor nn J who kuew !i;t.n J;i' k ; MVf't rnai.leu wLo had ii -r f.-;nllv. l.-j (.'-stowed but she onlv on her she ing this Alice fairly flew ta the door, and from there to her loon. She had had a shock, and she needed solitude to measure the hurt. The man smiled gently, sauntered on to the liver side and looked at the sunset alone. He could afford to wait. He wan sure of her. .a 1 the riches nnl the brains j In the meantime -ay ,ike a rose or like a lily: i :n..l fiattered her iu his ohl, things ;i :, atiil protesti at; : "'Don't Chicago News. t FOR FARM AHD GARDEN.! Ki.l the Old Hen. The keeping of poultry is a profit able industry, but it will'not be so if the farmer persists in having a lot of old hens that are merely pensioners. and ought to have been "in the frieasee ! uess gentleness, non-swai ming, ?u- ferent from the native bees. It ii generally conceded that the Italiaa bee5 have more desirable oualitiej ! than auy other iae, and the expert breeder adopt- this race a a founds I tiou to breed upon and thus improves j on the line of certain qualitits ha j wishes to attain. i Many good points may be obtained ! to considerable degrte iu cnieful ! breeding, narnelv, energy, probfic- pot years ago. . T m m m m 9 It TH h SUUL OF A ROSE. I 1 OLIVE HARPLR. were thoughtful shades in i.!(.v, n eyes of Alice Dorreuc? 1 l" I - - ..I il . A I i-; i " i s;ow i y aiong me paiu :u i ui; uer s eii"e io me . white dress and pale pink :'tittetel in the afternoon Mid made a sharp contrast vi id green around and under PC !im,v she was tryiug to solve a s;:ch as lias been presented to AMi::e;i in their time. Two men !:.-;, e ;ch lor different qualities. a Sti ng had been her friend and t. (!() c.er since she could remem- i t -y i-i. a .i i Knew ins lovaitv and , , . 1 , --but ho was a plain, unas - ; sun, caring little for society ij ; . i. nice, ilis leisure hours were :. ;i to tin' study of mechanics. He .. L" I in a machine shop as though ; " . i -1 to wear the overalls and apron, i' true that he looked like one of d.e n"ihi!::ii'il gods as he stood car i!!ur . j iii 0 pat t of a great intricate but The ether was a rich man's son, and 1"!!, slender bauds were never -t;ii:ie.i w itll toil. Alh-e tin. ught of both these men, :iti listing them, weighing them and "!.e;i:ues almost deciding in favor of :ie i i the other. One was educated, h;;t i.rkmn. The othe; was poli - 'I. but an idler. As otten as she tii'';ht she hud decided some new qwesti..!! would force her to begin all i-ver again. She had neither father mother, and lived with her aunt, h.nl just married a widowed '-v :i:in with such an array of noisy vu'wt n tlutt Alice felt that she reallv 1 ' 1 ii t bear to remain, and she 1 1 ' I ti i'iA of no" better way out of ''!' -b i'..-.;'; tv tiui'i to marrv. Avere not going well at the machine works. The engineer had always been reliable.and with him in charge of the great engine that drove the ponderous machiuery all over the immense works no one gave a thought for his personal safety. Hut this day, no one knew how it hap pened, the engineer lay in a stupor on the ground, and the pressure of steam was so great that the whole place trembled as the whee'.s whirled around. Before the danger was dis covered it was almost too late. Hun dreds of lives were at stake, and there w as no one to save them. John sprung to the engine to find that the sarety valve was closed and out of order. He leaped up and seized the bar with his bare hands and bore his whole weight upon it though he felt it burn its way to the very bone. He never knew how long he held o i to the bar that let off the steam, but when he regained consciousness, he was lying outside on the grass. One by one the faces he knew dawned dimly out of the mist before his eyes. After awhile they took him home and a doctor dressed the bums. Next morning John was sitting propped up in an armchair w ith both hands bandaged. His face was pale and dark rings around his eyes showed his suffering, but his thankfulness for the safety of all those men over balanced his pain. And yet there was little hope that lie would ever use those hands again hands that had been so clever to fashion wonders in steel and iron. He closed his eyes. Alice bad heard the story that same night. hhe could not go to him. She ha I no right. But in the morning she saw clearer, and, rising, she went into the garden and plucked another bud from the same bush and hastened with it in her hand toward John's home. On the way she met Charles in his immaculate morning costume. Something new and decided iu Alice's Depth of Cultivatiu- Crii. At the Indian station cultivating corn one and three inches deep gave better yields than cultivating two and four inches deep. The average re sults for nine years have been iu faor of cultivating one inch dee). (rowiiif; Water tic for MarKi't. A good deal of money may bi se cured from many small streams where watercress either grows naturally or could be made to do so by judicious seeding and planting. The cress seeds abundantly alter its season of growth is over, and when a stream is once stocked with it the growth of the plant is apt to increase. In some places gardeners have made artificial beds which they have planted with the cress, running from the stream into little coves which can be easily kept uuder water. The first cress of the season brings fancy prices at the large hotels and restaurants. The cress has a sprightly spicy taste that is almost universally liked, and it is believed by many that it has medicinal virtues that give it especial value as a tonic to the stomach when it lirst makes its appearance. face caught his attention, vanced jauntily, saying: "May I walk with you? you are going to visit our He ad- I suppose mechanical von, no. I am going go .i ' ,i:;lf Ib;,; a . v ht f-, - ! ..r;i.-d John she would ;:i the house near the big works h ui'her had lived. She would ii.ie enough of everything, ih -j John invented something e he would never be rich. If -niel Charles Sturgess she - io New York to see life as it he b"st oi'iety. Her iuiagina : t:;;ed this as an existence of live beauty with no seamy side, i -h' walked and thought, but to no decision. She turuelto the lawn leading to the beautiful ' --" ind had gone but a few spaces ,; '-: the path when she came iu sight rh i!', s Sturgess standing beside a " h .v.) whose buds were just uu He stood a moment looking bush then chose the most per t; d loveliest bud of all and broke h u t without a stem. ,l s'epped forward just then, and t oHfd and spoke he tore the bud ind pressed it to his nostrils. ! it thus for a brief space in ' the fiagrance, then cast it sruve e, uath anil erouuil it friend?" "Thauk i uiuiie. "Ah! Well, I will say goodby, as I leave here tonight." He watched her face and saw it clear, as if relieved. "Then we will say goodby," and she walked on, as if in haste. Something like a mist came into his thr as ho a; 1 . Ill . ;; . ' , a;-.. ' I 'i :e " 'ii of sight with m hee'. ' telt a chill pass over her. i; ie noticed, as c smiled He and . o e l oses so. shouldn't think it." I do I love to cboo3 au ua- eves and a choke in his murmured: "I am sorry, for she is as good as she is beautiful, and she deserves a better fate than stagnation here." Alice was soon standing by John's side. He opened his eyes to se3 her hand'ng him a rosebud, while tears rained down her cheeks. "What is it Alice? What troubles you?" he asked. "Oh, John, John! I am so sorry for your hands." "Don't ciy.Allie, don't cry They'll be well iu a few days." But Alice sunk on her knees and went on eryiug and kissing the laud aged hands until John put those maimed members around her and lifted her face to his. She laid the rosebud on his lips and he reverently kissed it, aud as he did so it unfolded of itself to perfect beauty. Chicago Be cord. , Tartu an Subtenant. rabs find the cactus to be an ex traordinarily useful plant. They rind in it fcod and drink and also fodJer for their cattle and camels. The Arab eats the figs and drinks the abundant supply of juice in the fleshy leave. The camels chew up euerly what la left over. Tli Value of the e$;iritor. A. X. Hyatt tells iu the Indiana Farmer his opinion of the separator after using one live years. He bought it that he might be able to feed better the twenty calves a year that he de sired to raise, aud he says: "The separator gave us at least two pounds more butter a day than we could get by deep setting. We got from three to five pounds more butter a day by running it through the sep arator at home warm than we were credited with for the same milk at the creamery. Two hundred pounds of milk fresh from the cow and warm from the separator seemed to make more gain with young pigs and calves than double the pounds as we got it from the creamery. Microbes and flies and rinsings do not seem to set well on the stomachs of young stock. The separator would save us a trip every morning to the creamery, and often an hour or two waiting for our milk. It would save our aerating and cooling our night's milk. It would save three or four cents for making our milk into butter, aud we could get three or four more cents for our but ter if we made it than Elgin prices, or from the factory." That is strong testimony from a prac tical dairyman, and he adds that the first vear he raised thirtv-six calves instead of his usual twenty, and the extra sixteen could have been sold for enough to pay for the separator. American Cultivator. Well Breil Bee. The apiarist is usually a very care ful breeder of bees. He rears queens only from choice stocks, those that have the qualities he wishes to more fully develop, aud thus produces a strain of bees much ahead of the or dinary. All breeding iu this line centres in the queen. If a colony of bees do not come up to standard re quirements the queeu suffers the ieu alty, and when she is dispatched an entire change of stock takes place, providing a uew queen is introduced in her place. Great is the difference in colouies of bees or bees produced by different queens. This is true not only of different races of bees, but colonies of the same race or variety. Since the introduction of the Italian bees into this country, color has be come an important factor in breeding. as by color only can we designate the Italian bee from any other at first sight. Color of itself is not the only difference, however, for the cbaracr iitics of the IUliau bet art ttitt Tif- durance, color, etc. Some colouies of bees are more energetic than otheis, and the result is they store a larger surplus of honey than others when the conditions are the same. Somt queens and strains of queens are more prolific than others, and fill their hives with brood and bees rapidly and early, and are in the field with more5 laborers when the honey season opens and naturally store more honey. The gentle bees allow themselves to bi handled and manipulated iu the hivo without resistance, and a much better job of work can be done with them. The non-swarmers continue to store honey as long as they have a place to store it, and do not lose any time swarming or attempting to swarm if the apiarist does his part. Farm, Field and Fireside. Cultivating A.t rue" . A moderately light soil is prefer able fur the culture of asparagus, but any good garden s; il will answer. Put on all the well-rotted manure you can plow uuder; and work the soil fine to a depth of eight or ten inches. If the soil is well prepared on the statt it will repnire less work to keep it iu g ol condition. Plants one or two years old should be used, never those taken from an old bed. Set the plants 18 inches apart in the row, and th rows three feet apart. This may seem like considerable room, but it will bo found sufficiently close, for the r otn will entirely nil tbe soil in a lew years. Make the holes large, so that the root 4 can be spread out in their iiatural position. Set the plants s that tho crow ns w ill be from five to eight inch es below the surface, according to the character of the soil. The heavier the soil the less covering they should have. Cover only a few indies deej at first, firming the soil well about the roots, and allowing the remainder to be worked in by the snbse pieut cul tivation. (live thorough cultivation during the growing season, and in the fall cut the tops and burn them on the ground to destroy the seed, which, if allowed to grow, will make a mess of young plants the worst kind of weed in an asparagus bed. The following spring put on a good coating of fine manuro and spade it in with a spading fork an early as the ground- will work well. In spading, care should be takeu not to injure the crow ns of the plants. This treatment should bo repeated each succeeding year. If the plants have made a good, strong growth' the first season, they may be cut a few times the following spring, but it W better to let them grow two years be fore cutting, that they may becom well established and have a good, strong root system. In cutting, use a sharp knife and sever the stalk a couple of inches below the surface of the soil. Always cut everything cleau, even though it is not fit for use, be cause when a few stalks are allowed to grow up, the plant will cease to throw out new shoots. For the first few years the bed should not be cut for more than thre or four weeks, but after the plant have become strong and the ciownn large, the cutting may be cotiunel until the middle or last of June with out injury. Then allow the toj 9 to grow and assimilate food to be stored up in the roots for the succeeding, crops. Fifty or 100 plants, if well cared for, will after three years' growth produce all the asparagus an ordinary family cau use. It comes early in the season, when everyone is hungry for something green. It is very eailj ! prepared. The stalks are iu the bet condition for Jise.when they are from luree io nve incnenigu. nuoa iubj cet too old thev Income touch and woody. Thej will be tender wbea cooked if they will snap readilv ttt& oem. American arr'7u.ian. -